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Sea Breeze Café Closes After 19 Years

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Sea Breeze Café, a Leith Walk staple for nearly two decades, is closing due to a rent hike. Owner Sam Alkerson is searching for a new location to keep the beloved name alive, as customers mourn the loss of a community hub and affordable eats.

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Sea Breeze Café Closes After 19 Years

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It's April 29, I'm Cory with the story, and this is Edinburgh News today, your AI-powered local news. Pigeons are getting trapped behind wire mesh under an Edinburgh railway bridge, and locals are calling it straight up cruel. Network Rail put up the netting at Russell Road between Roseburn and Dowery to stop birds from nesting in dangerous spots, but is backfiring big. Time second time this year, birds have been caught. Last week, resident Julie McGill-Lindon spotted the mess, with pigeons flapping desperately to get out while others tried flying in. She hit up social media, blasting Network Rail for a gnawing wildlife, and called in the Scottish SPCA to rescue them. Folks on the ground are heartbroken. One local washed a bird, paced back and forth, stuck with no way through the gaps. Dead pigeons were even found on the netting before they pulled it down, but they refitted it anyway, trapping more birds right after. Network Rail says they're on it now, reviewing the whole setup to figure out what went wrong

and make sure it doesn't trap birds again. They're vowing to tweak safety measures across the board, so hopefully these feathered friends get a fair shake moving forward.

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